Making Your Own Background

Hello Everyone!

Miae here, sharing my first ever post with Faber Castell Design Memory Craft®! I’m very excited to be a part of this guest design team.

There are so many wonderful options with Mix & Match from Faber Castell, it’s awesome! I decided to make a layout and share with you the different techniques I used to create this background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s start with the blue and yellow flowers….

 

I used a stencil as my guide and drew the outline with my Art Grip® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils.

 

Next I filled in the petals ….wait for it….

 

Just added water and voila! Watercolor painted flowers! The Art Grip® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils let me draw my lines in so precisely then dissolved so smoothly into a painted look. Easy!

 

I wanted to accentuate the petals so I outlined them with PITT® Pastel Pencils. Velvety smooth is all I can say!

 

Next I wanted to get some splatters on my page. My pages don’t feel quite right to me unless I have something splattered or dripped!

 

I took both my Stamper’s Big Brush Pen and PITT® Artist Pen and drew on the craft mat to get the color I wanted then spritzed with water.

 

Then I took a stipple brush and flicked color around! Fun!

 

For my final flower I first made my concoction: Stamper’s Big Brush Pen drawn on palette, a small spray of water to liquefy color, and a scoop of molding paste. Next I mixed the whole lot until I got my beautiful pink paste.

 

I applied the paste over stencil…love that texture and color!

 

After the flower dried, I placed the stencil down again and brushed over the center petals with the Stamper’s Big Brush Pen, smudging with my fingers over the wet ink.

It gave the flower a bit more depth and dimension, don't you think?

 

The final close up is my flower a bit more dressed up with some stamping, embellishments, and outlining with my Essential PITT® Artist Pen with the XS nib.

 

The rest of the background was simply a cluster of layered stamping. After that is was just at matter of adding my photo and title! 

And that is it for today! Until next time..Cheers!

Supply List

Art Grip® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils #105, 111, 147, 153

PITT® Pastel Pencils #101, 109, 113, 151, 153

Stamper's Big Brush Pen #133 Magenta

PITT® Artist Pen #290 Ruby Metallic

Essential PITT® Artist Pen #199 XS, S Black

Other Supplies:

Bazzill Cardstock

Golden Molding Paste

Ranger Mini Mister

Stazon Ink

Flower Stencil by Plaid

Prima Alphas, Bling

7 Gypsies Stamps

G Studio Stamps

Autumn Leaves Stamps

Bird by Michaels

 

Miae Rowe Sometime ago I discovered this thing called scrapbooking and it's fair to say I'm an addict! I love color, I love texture, I love putting all that together! Life with my Aussie husband and our 2 daughters is full of plenty of adventures for me to photograph and get creative with...fodder for the fuel!

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Vivian K]

Totally gorgeous!!!

[Gabriella]

looooooooooove!! Thanks for the tutorials.. very inspiring!!

[Kelly]

I've always admired your mixed media pages and wonderful backgrounds...so great to see this tutorial about how it all came together! Love how you used the products, Miae!